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JEAN IGNACE ISIDORE GERARD (1803-1847)

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JEAN IGNACE ISIDORE See also:GERARD (1803-1847)  , See also:French caricaturist, generally known by the See also:pseudonym of Grandville—the professional name of his grandparents, who were actors—was See also:born at See also:Nancy on the 13th of See also:September 1803 . He received his first instruction in See also:drawing from his See also:father, a See also:miniature painter, and at the See also:age of twenty-one came to See also:Paris, where he soon afterwards published a collection of lithographs entitled See also:Les Tribulations de la petite propriete . He followed this by Les Plaisirs de touldge and La Sibylle See also:des salons; but the See also:work which first established his fame was Metamorphoses du jour, published in 1828, a See also:series of seventy scenes in which individuals' with the bodies of men and faces of animals are made to See also:play a 'human See also:comedy . These drawings are remarkable for the extra-See also:ordinary skill with which human characteristics are represented in See also:animal features . The success of this work led to his being engaged as See also:artistic contributor to various See also:periodicals, such as La See also:Silhouette, L' Artiste, La See also:Caricature, Le See also:Charivari; and his See also:political caricatures, which were characterized by marvellous fertility of was captured by See also:Alexander Jannaeus (c . 83 B.C.), rebuilt by the See also:Romans (c . A.D . 65), burned by the See also:Jews in revenge for the See also:massacre at Caesarea, and again plundered and depopulated by Annius, the See also:general of See also:Vespasian; but, in spite of these disasters, it was still in the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the See also:Christian era one of the wealthiest and most flourishing cities of See also:Palestine . It was a centre of See also:Greek See also:civilization, devoted especially to the See also:worship of See also:Artemis, and producing famous teachers, of whom See also:Stephen the See also:Byzantine mentions Ariston, Kerykos and See also:Plato . As See also:late as 1121 the soldiers of See also:Baldwin II. found it defended by a See also:castle built by a See also:king of See also:Damascus; but at the beginning of the following See also:century the Arabian geographer Yaqut speaks of it as deserted and overthrown . The ruins of Jerash, discovered about 18o6, and since then frequently visited and described, still attest the splendour of the See also:Roman See also:city . They are distributed along both See also:banks of the Kerwan, a See also:brook which flows See also:south through the See also:Wadi-ed-Der to join the Zerka or Jabbok; but all the See also:principal buildings are situated on the level ground to the right of the stream .

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town walls, which can still be traced and indeed are partly See also:standing, had a See also:circuit of not more than 2 m., and the See also:main See also:street was less than See also:half a mile in length; but remains of buildings on the road for fully a mile beyond the south See also:gate, show that the town had outgrown the limit of its fortifications . The most striking feature of the ruins is the See also:pro-See also:fusion of columns, no fewer than 230 being even now in position; the main street is a continuous See also:colonnade, a large See also:part of which is still entire, and it terminates to the south in a See also:forum of similar formation . Among the public buildings still recognizable are a See also:theatre capable of accommodating hobo spectators, a naumachia (See also:circus for See also:naval combats) and several temples, of which the largest was probably the grandest structure in the city, possessing a See also:portico of Corinthian pillars 38 ft. high . The desolation of the city is probably due to See also:earthquake; and the See also:absence of Moslem erections or restorations seems to show that the disaster took See also:place before the See also:Mahommedan See also:period . The town is now occupied by a See also:colony of Circassians, whose houses have been built with materials from the earlier buildings, and there has been much destruction of the interesting ruins . " The See also:country of the Gerasenes " (Matt. viii . 28 and See also:parallels; other readings, Gadarenes, Gergesenes) must be looked for in another See also:quarter—on the E. See also:coast of the See also:Sea of See also:Galilee, probably in the neighbourhood of the See also:modern Khersa (C . W . See also:Wilson in Recovery of See also:Jerusalem, p . 369) . (R . A .

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RICHARD, See also:ALFRED See also:LEON (186o- ), French journalist and politician, was born at Bonnetable in the See also:department of See also:Sarthe, of a See also:peasant See also:family . He began See also:life as a working See also:upholsterer, first at Mans, then at Paris (188o), where his peasant and socialist songs soon won him fame in the Montmartre quarter . Lissagaray, the communist, offered him a position on La Bataille, and he became a See also:regular contributor to the advanced See also:journals, especially to La Petite Republique, of which he became editor-inchief in 1897 . In 1893 he founded Le Chambard, and was imprisoned for a See also:year (1894) on See also:account of a See also:personal attack upon the See also:president, Casimir-See also:Perier . In See also:January 1895 he was elected to the chamber as a Socialist for the thirteenth See also:arrondissement of Paris . He was defeated at the elections of 1898 at Paris, but was re-elected in 1902 and in 1906 by the colony of See also:Guadeloupe .

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